Three men and two women were being quizzed by murder squad detectives last night after a man was found stabbed to death at a house in Bradford.

Officers were called to the terraced home in Parsonage Road, West Bowling, at 1.30am yesterday.

The dead man, who has not been named, is believed to have been in his 30s.

The area was sealed off by police while a detailed examination of the scene was carried out by forensic officers. Detectives also carried out house-to-house inquiries in the residential street.

The murder inquiry is being led by Detective Superintendent Paul Kennedy, of West Yorkshire Police Homicide and Major Enquiry Team.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "A man was found dead in the house having suffered from a stab wound."

Three men, aged from their late teens to their early 40s, and two women, one in her 30s and the other in her 40s, have been arrested.

They were being questioned by officers at an undisclosed police station in West Yorkshire, in relation to the incident. People in the street woke to find part of the road cordoned off by police.

Ward councillor and Labour group leader Ian Greenwood (Little Horton) said: "I am absolutely shocked that such an incident has taken place on this street where I was brought up and lived for the first 28 years of my life.

"The community of West Bowling has seen increasingly a reduction in crime - and events of this nature are a real shock.

"Clearly we must call on everybody for calm and do everything we can to support the police in their inquiries to ensure the guilty people are brought to justice."

Councillor Sher Khan (Lab, Little Horton), said he believed the victim was of Eastern European origin.

He said: "I heard about it yesterday morning - they seem to be living in the one place and it seems to be an Eastern European.

"I think we have got a language barrier between sections of the community in West Bowling and that does not help - it is worrying for us as councillors and all of the communities who live there."

Caroline Ford, 46, who lives in the street, said she heard nothing during the night.

She said: "I would have thought my dogs would have heard something if there had been any noise.

"The first thing I did when I found out was to check if my son was all right. Being 19 he is out with his friends some weekends.

"When I got up this morning he wasn't in, which isn't unusual, but I did ring to check he was all right because you never know sometimes.

"It is a very quiet street from what I know. You don't really hear anybody shouting or anything like that and if you do, it's usually passing through."